Assassin's Creed | Reader

Jacob x Reader [ Don't be afraid Love ]

WARNING: This story is based on Astraphobia which is the fear of thunder lightning. Those who have astraphobia, don't read if you think it will trigger something of some kind.

Please don't read this seriously if you think it will trigger something.

Special thanks to Cho-Cho-Chocobros for requesting this!

There is a difference between being a tad bit scared and being deathly afraid.

I am a pure example of deathly afraid.

The windows rattled as the wind pushed against the glass, rain practically smashing against the side of the train car. My heart was beating about as fast as a running rabbit on a sugar high, it could almost leap out of my chest if it wanted to. Storms for me are a bit of a challenge to get through. A light rain shower is fine, maybe some heavy rain here and there. But storms were a HUGE no-no. I can't get through one without having some sort of panic inside of me caused by the huge wave of fear crashing over me.

The worst thing about this is the fact I couldn't run away from it, I couldn't get away by any means unless I could teleport which is a wild dream in this day and age. I could sleep through one during the night....sometimes. Not tonight though....

Jacob on the other hand could. Hell, he could sleep through an explosion going off all around him. I could barely get him up in the morning some days. It's times like this that I envy him....if I could be a heavy sleeper like him during these times I wouldn't have to deal with this feeling in my chest. He was snoring beside me, laying on his side with his hand tucked under his head. Sleeping like a big old baby....watching him sleep almost brought a sort of peace over me....

CRACK

Another dose of lighting has me jolting against the headboard, my body giving off a shudder as I try and mentally will the storm to move away. To leave me alone and to just go bother someone else. Another crack of thunder and a flash of lightning has me making a small whimper, wanting to scramble over Jacob to get to some other side of the cart. Again, it would be useless considering you can't really run from a storm.

"(Y/N)?...." a groggy voice enters my ears, my eyes glancing down to Jacob, noticing how my body had actually pushed into his away from the window. "Sorry..." I mumble, shifting back to my spot slowly, flinching back as the windows rattled while the wind pushed on. "What are you doing still up?" he grumbled, running a hand through his brown mane while his eyes squinted up at me. "Just uh....thinking" I said meekly, trying to hide the waver in my voice at the obvious lie. I didn't really want to say I wasn't asleep cause of the hell storm going on outside...mostly because he doesn't know about my fear of storms. It was a tad bit I hid from him for a long while until we started spending the nights together. That's when it got a bit harder to hide it. I don't know why I would want to hide it, it just felt like a silly thing compared to the things I should be scared of. Like death or being robbed in the streets. Stuff like that not....silly storms.

He must have sense the lie in my voice, shifting in the bed so he was sitting back on his elbows while looking up at me. "It's nothing Jacob, go back to sleep. I'll be out like a light in...in a minute" I say softly, my voice tampering off as a flash of lightning came and then the heart clenching strike of thunder that made my body tense up. He cocked his head to the side, like a dog would when confused. That's when he shifted his body, letting out a small grunt as his joints cracked and his body yearned for him to lay back down. His arms wrapped around me, drawing me to his chest while sitting back against the headboard. "J-Jacob what are you doing?"

"Thinking"

"Jacob"

"What? You're thinking too aren't you?" He murmured, his hand rubbing against my arm. "Well I-I mean what are-"

My voice was cut off as another crack shook the air and made my body pin up against the assassin. He let out a soft hush, pressing his lips to my forehead as a way to try and calm me down. "It's alright love" He whispered, glancing up at the window. "It'll be over soon" he continued. Thankfully he didn't say It's just thunder or It's just a storm. No he just hummed and whispered actually comforting things, letting me melt into his side.

I don't know how long the storm lasted, but I could definitely say that the added weight of that fear was slowly taken off from Jacobs comfort. He had me wrapped in his arms for most of the night, pressing little kisses here and there whenever the thunder rumbled through the sky. I have to say that his comfort was much better then squeezing a pillow to my chest and saying those same lines to myself over and over again.

At one point I let my eyes close, wondering if maybe I could sleep since the cracks of thunder were growing apart, slowly growing fainter as time went on. I did fall asleep at one point.....

Jacob's POV

She fell asleep almost instantly, finally letting her eyes close. Which was what I was hoping, not wanting her to stay up all night due to the fear of what was going on outside. Or rather from her thinking.

Didn't matter. I would stay up all night with her if it meant giving her some sort of comfort.

Authors Note

Heyyyyyy It's kind of short but who cares I think it's cute.

Sorry if it's a bit messy I was listening to the Hamilton Soundtrack and my fingers go to the beat of the song ( Is that a trait a lot of former band kids get? Idk maybe it's just my weird ass ) Butttttt I hope you guys like it. It's fluffy and cute and I like it. I like the idea of this, once again thanks Cho-Cho-Chocobros for the request! I'll get to more of those this week.

In the mean time you might or might not see the first chapter of a Overwatch One-shot book. WHICH I will do stories for almost all the characters. It's gonna be difficult cause I honestly could just write the whole book with my favorite characters ( Hanzo, Mcree, Reaper, Genji and 76 ) and I would be happy but you guys would probably want to see other characters. So tell me in the comments who else you wanna see and what preferences you want. Like if you want to see a Mercy insert, would it be female!reader or male!reader? Gotta give me details or else I'm gonna go to default.

Anyway enjoy your day/night!